Portable sprayer for destroying vermin on plants



oct. '27, 192s. 1,559,258

F". KLUSMEY ER PORTABLE SPRAYER FOR DESTROYING VEREIN 0N PLANTS Filed April 29, 1924 Ulli! lv WIM -" is titted with a dome t) in a way known in Patented Oct. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH KLUSMEYER, OF APLERBECK, GERMANY.

PORTABLE SPRAYER FOR DESTROYING VERMIN ON PLANTS.

Application filed April 29, 1924. Serial No. 709,938.

Shut-oli' cocks 17, 18 and 19 are inserted in the pipe 1() and bye-pipes 13 and 16 respectively, which can be opened or closed to suit requirements.

A steam nozzle 2t) is preferably led from the boiler into the llue 21 to increase the action otl the latter. A trarne 22 serves to convey the apparatus on its wheels 4.

The steain generated in the boiler 1 passes through the dome t) and escapes through the rose of pipe 10. By the suction effect of the outttowing steam, either With open cock 18 the poisonous matter in the container 7, or with open cock l5) the sulphur in the receiver 14, is caused to flow along the pipe 13, or It? respectively, and to escape with the steam through the rose pipe. As already mentioned, the knee-shaped receiver lst is. rlor an evaporation ol its contents` inserted with its lower member in the lurnace 2. According to the kind ol' vermin to be destroyed, one or the other mediunr-either poison or sulphur-fis employed separately.

What l claim, ist@ ln a portable sprayer for destroying vermin on plants; the eombination with a steam boiler having' a furnace, a rose pipe issuingl l'rom the top ot said steam boiler, and a poison container in 'communication with said rose pipe; ot' a separate detachable kneeshaped sulphur receiver insert/ed with its lower part in the Yfurnace of said boiler and at its upper part in conununieation with said rose pipe, and shut-ottA cocks to connect either the poison container or the sulphur receiver with said rose pipe substant ially as set forth.

ln testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand.

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ie it known thatr I, Fniiiiinioii Kms- Miaviaia, a German citizen, and residing at Aplerbeck, vestphalim Germany, have in- 5 vented certain new and usct'ul improvements in a Portable :Sprayer for Destroying` 'vermin on Plants, ot which the following is a :I 5 icc i tieation.

This invention relates to an improved portable sprayer for destroying vermin on plants, which is represented on the accontpanying drawing, in which Figs. l and 2 are respectively a rear view and a plan view otC the same.

rl'he steam boiler t with a furnace 2 is carried by axles l on wheels 1. lietweeu boiler and wheels, said antes carry a Yl'eed water reservoir 5 in rommunieation with .said boiler on one side of the latter and a t'uel tanhv on the other side ol said boiler. (in the reservoir i: a poison container i' otl transparent material` and on the tank t3 a receptacle t Vt'or storing;` large quantities ol' sulphur therein, are arrangedD 'l`he boiler the art. a pipe ltt issuing Viront said dome and terminatinnr in a rose. The pipe lt) has a hall joint 11)" and a branch l2 which is in conmiunieation with bye-pipes 1?, ll through i" which the poisonous matter can be sucked and conveyed to those places where the vermin are present.

A".,reordinj to the invention, a detachable l-:nee-sllaped receiver lt serves l'or the evaperation otYI sulphur, it being t'or this purpose partly titled with sulphur Vtroni the storage receptacle h and then inserted with its lower member in the furnace i3 through a elosable door if. A bye-pipe lt leads from said receiver l-t to the branch 12 ot' the pipe ltt.

FR l El )RICH KLUSMEY ER. 

